Von Miller wouldn't have torn his ACL had John Fox listened to Peyton Manning in 2013

During the 2013 season, Von Miller and some of his Broncos teammates went clubbing the night before a Week 16 game against the Texans, the superstar linebacker recently told Sports Illustrated. The players missed curfew, upsetting then-Denver coach John Fox.

But quarterback Peyton Manning was even more mad than Fox.

From Greg Bishop’s piece for SI:

Coach John Fox found out and screamed at the revelers in a team meeting. Manning, Miller says, suggested that the coach send them home on the next flight. Instead, they stayed and played, and Miller’s right knee buckled as he tried to stutter-step between blockers in the first quarter. He missed the remainder of the season.

Had Fox listened to Manning’s suggestions and sent the players home, Miller wouldn’t have suffered a torn ACL against the Texans the next day. Pro Bowl cornerback Chris Harris Jr. went on to tear his ACL in the playoffs and Denver had to play without the two defenders in Super Bowl XLVIII, a 43-8 loss to the Seahawks.